Month: May 2017
Why is Communicating in Local Languages Important?
This blog post also appears here and discusses a project funded in 2017 which builds on advances in pedagogy, smart phone communications, simulated reality and gamification, in order to address how to give local people ...
Read More Statelessness and International Development: The importance of incorporating stateless populations into development processes
UNHCR estimates that there are currently 10 million stateless people worldwide, although many suggest the number is probably higher. Despite this large global population of stateless people, until recently, the ...
Read More Are You Seeking Funding? The Call for the LIDC Seed Fund is Now Open!
Applications are now being accepted for the LIDC Interdisciplinary SEED Fund 2017-18. What is the LIDC Interdisciplinary SEED Fund? In 2013 LIDC launched its annual Fellowship Scheme that aims to support new ...
Read More LIDC Project CEDIL Seeks a Deputy Director
LIDC project, the Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) is looking for a Deputy Director! The Deputy Director will play a key role in shaping the strategic vision of ...
Read More In the Clutches of a Long-Standing Genocide: Pakistan's Hazara Community
In the early Sunday morning of 1996, my tiny excited-self sprang out of bed. Minutes later: “Ready?” My dad glanced to check whether I had layered up adequately in the ...
Read More Tackling Global Inequality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
At the The LIDC Biennial Conference on 'Interdisciplinary Approaches to Inequality' in April we had an afternoon of parallel sessions on a range of issues including Health and Nutrition, Education, Corruption, Linguistics ...
Read More Recordings of the LIDC Biennial Conference 2017 now available online
On Thursday 27th April the third LIDC Biennial Conference celebrated our work to date and looked to the future! The theme of this year's conference was 'Interdisciplinary Approaches to Inequality' with Keynote talks ...
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